Posted on 03/29/2023 6:16:22 AM PDT by Red Badger
Two women who lost their lives in Monday's school shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville were longtime family friends of Gov. Bill Lee and his wife, Maria, the governor said in a video address Tuesday night.
"All of Tennessee was hurt yesterday, but some parents woke up without children, children woke up without parents and without teachers, and spouses woke up without their loved ones," the Republican governor said. "Maria woke up this morning without one of her best friends, Cindy Peak."
The teacher, he said, "was supposed to come over to have dinner with Maria last night after she filled in as a substitute teacher yesterday at Covenant."
Lee also said another shooting victim, late headmistress Katherine Koontz, was also a close friend of his wife's and that the three women have been friends for years.
"Cindy and Maria and Katherine Koonce were all teachers at the same school and had been family friends for decades," Lee added.
The three women had worked together at Nashville's Christ Presbyterian Academy, reports The Tennessean.
Koonce, 60, had been at Christ Presbyterian, where Peak had also taught. Their time at the school overlapped with Maria Lee's, who was at the school for 14 years. She taught students in the third and fourth grades and was an athletic coach.
Monday morning, in an incident lasting just 15 minutes, the shooter, identified as Audrey Hale, shot and killed Peak, Koonce, custodian Mike Hill, and three 9-year-old students, William Kinney, Evelyn Dieckhaus, and Hallie Scruggs, the daughter Covenant Presbyterian Church lead pastor Chad Scruggs.
Police shot and killed Hale in the school.
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*** The shooter was reportedly under a doctor’s care for an “emotional disorder,” The Tennessean reports. Authorities have not yet determined a motive behind the attack***
I read that and wonder if she was on SSRIs, which I consider to be very dangerous drugs that the medical community hands out like it’s harmless candy.
What are SSRIs?...........
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, basically anti-depressants.
They are powerful drugs and shown that dosages must be closely monitored. I think it’s similar to the opioid problems. Doctors handed out prescriptions without realizing how dangerous and addicting they were. In my opinion, SSRIs are given out too frequently and don’t address the underlying problems AT ALL.
Meant to ping you to number 5.
I wish they’d refer to spree killers as such rather than tarnish all shooters.
Mass Murderer is fitting.................
I think my grandson who is autistic, 13 years old, is on SSRIs..............
SSRI’s have helped more people than I can imagine. They aren’t evil and they aren’t mind control drugs. They aren’t perfect for every person.
I didn’t say they are evil. I am suggesting they are easily misused.
I was on several different kinds for about a dozen years. It was for “depression”. What the real problem was that I was abused and didn’t know how to deal with that abuse, so they diagnosed me with depression. It took years of therapy to get to the root of it.
The medication did it’s job. I didn’t feel highs or lows anymore. I felt like a zombie, not a person.
It took me quite a while to get my doctor to agree that I would be better off without them. Because they are addictive, it’s like going through withdrawals every time you dose down even a tiny bit. It took me two full years under his monthly supervision to get off those things. I was a raving maniac bitch for 3 days every time we dosed me down. My husband is a saint, but he stuck through all of that with me.
The point I’m trying to make is that they aren’t for everyone, but they are handed out like candy, with little supervision at the beginning. And the crux of the problem is rarely addressed unless the patient, like me, really wants to get to the bottom of what’s eating at them.
Spree killers involve multiple locations. Mass is the correct terminology for this event.
You’re right. Thanks.
Please watch him. Make sure he takes the correct amount and doesn’t miss them. I’m not a doctor, but from personal experience, I didn’t like the way they made me feel. Dosing off of them was very difficult. It was like some form of withdrawal and I felt like a crazy person as my body adjusted to a new lower level. Make sure he gets his other therapies to give him tools to use. The medications don’t address the root causes of what’s going on, IMHO.
Also, I will say, they may have newer and improved medications than the ones I was prescribed. My treatments were over 20 years ago. I’m sure much has changed, but I know the ones I used back then are still being prescribed these days. I was on Zoloft most of the time. I forget the other one we tried, but it was really bad for me so was stopped almost immediately. The Zoloft was very hard to get off of once it was time for me to be off them.
That is why it is so exciting psychedelic drugs to gain the traction they have and hopefully really are able to launch a new era in psychiatric treatment. Existing psychiatric drugs need to be taken every day but with those from my understanding a single dose could have effects up to a year.
What I hope for is that people who suffered trauma from abuse like I did are able to learn to deal with trauma in a better way. Taking a pill doesn’t help you understand how to deal with trauma in anything but a superficial way.
Unfortunately, my daughter and her family live hundreds of miles away.................
Not to mention the myriad of hormone replacement drugs that trannies take.
Doctors hand those things out like candy and we really don't know what the long term effects are, particularly when the people taking them are also likely to have other psychological conditions that the doctors are reluctant to dig deeper into.
Yes, well, let her know that you are concerned. I’m sure she will watch over your grandson. It is very hard.
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